Act of Parliament, 1796. An Act to vary and alter the Line of the Canal [an amendment to] An Act for making a Navigable Canal from the river Kennet, at or near the Town of Newbury, in the County of Berks, to the River Avon, at or near the City of Bath; and also certain Navigable Cuts therein described’ [passed in 1790]. Extract from Acts of Parliament, Chapter 44, pp. 459-474. Age-toned but clean, Early pencilled note on title page ‘Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation Alteration and Variation of Line, 1790-1795’. and in very good condition.

It concerns straightening the originally proposed line between Foxhanger and Trowbridge in Wiltshire.